2024 Advancing Equity Summit
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program and speakers
7:00 AM
Registration & AR Experience
8:20 AM
Welcome to Country
View Restaurant Terrace
8:45 AM
Day 1 Introduction to the Equity CoLab's 2024 Advancing Equity Summit + Meet Your MC
Rainforest Room
9:00 AM
Equity in Context: Australia's History and Systemic Injustices
Rainforest Room
9:20 AM
Opening Keynote with Q&A – Equity: “Embracing the ALL without fear”
Rainforest Room
10:20 AM
Morning tea
View Restaurant Terrace
10:50 AM
Rethinking Solutions: How Systems Thinking Shapes a Fairer Future
Rainforest Room
11:25 AM
Visualising Inequity: How Data Shapes Our Understanding of Equity, Equality and Disadvantage in Australia
Rainforest Room
11:55 AM
Achieving Equity at Scale: Policy Solutions for a Fairer Australia
Rainforest Room
12:25 PM
Q&A Panel for mid-morning sessions
Rainforest Room
12:45 PM
Networking lunch and AR Experience
View Restaurant Terrace
1:45 PM
Workshop Series 1 – Innovations and Insights in Driving Structural Change for Equity: Case Studies in Housing, Health, and Cross-Sectoral Approaches for Older Australians.
Attendees choose to attend session A, B or C.
A – Pursuing Equitable Housing: Lessons from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
Rainforest Room
B – Collaborative Strategic Reform: The Torres and Cape Healthcare Commissioning Fund Initiative
Ocean Room
C – Golden Age Investing: Policy Reforms for Equitable Ageing in Australia
Aqua Room
2:35 PM
Workshop Series 2 – Centring Equity in Systems Change: Deep(er) Dives into Principles, Power and Partnerships.
Attendees choose to attend session A, B or C
A – Locating Yourself in the System and Engaging with Power to Advance Equity
Rainforest Room
B – Principles and Pathways to Achieve Impact at Scale
Ocean Room
C – Leveraging Partnerships for Systemic Change: Lessons from Thriving Kids QLD
Aqua Room
3:20 PM
Afternoon tea
View Restaurant Terrace
4:05 PM
Transforming from Within: The Personal Journey to Drive Equity
Rainforest Room
4:30 PM
Day 1 Reflections
Rainforest Room
6:30 PM
Sunset drinks and dinner celebration
View Restaurant Terrace
6:00 AM
National Park sunrise walk and connecting with Country
Noosa National Park
8:30 AM
Day 2 Introduction
Rainforest Room
8:45 AM
Re-Patterning for Equity: Transforming Everyday Actions and Relationships
Rainforest Room
9:20 AM
Community-Led Change for Equity: How First Nations and Multicultural Communities Lead in Peacebuilding, Healing and Strengthening Democracy
Rainforest Room
9:50 AM
Panel Q&A
Rainforest Room
10:10 AM
Morning tea
View Restaurant Terrace
10:40 AM
Workshop 3 – Building Community: Lessons from Place-Based Intersectoral Collaboration for Equitable Change.
Attendees choose to attend session A, B or C.
A – Locals Leading the Way: Community-Driven Health Transformation in the Southern Moreton Bay Islands
Rainforest Room
B – Stronger Places Stronger People: Collaborative Success in the Gladstone Region
Ocean Room
C - Community Led Change for Equity – Deeper Dive
Aqua Room
11:25 AM
Workshop 4 – Equity by Design: Integrating Data, Evidence and Continuous Learning into Workplace, Program, Service and Policy Design.
Attendees choose to attend session A, B or C.
A – Creating Gender Equitable Workplaces: Addressing Structural Barriers and Cultivating Inclusive Cultures
Rainforest Room
B – A New Practice Framework: Addressing Systemic Issues Faced by Marginalised Young People
Ocean Room
C – Restacking the Odds: Enhancing Early Childhood Service Quality and Equity with Evidence-Based Indicators
Aqua Room
12:10 PM
Networking lunch and AR Experience
View Restaurant Terrace
1:10 PM
Panel Discussions
Choose one of two sessions
1 – Innovative Funding Strategies and Collaborations: Advancing Equity through Effective Financial Models
Rainforest Room
Thriving Kids Queensland Partnership: Innovative Approaches to Funding for Child Wellbeing
Investment Dialogue for Australia’s Children and the Queensland Kid Funders Alliance: Collaborative Funding Models for Long-Term Impact
Achieve Foundation and Disability Funders Network: Redefining Funding Strategies to Support Inclusive and Equitable Outcomes
2 – Equity in Governance
Ocean/Aqua Room
Australian Business Volunteers: Enhancing Community-Led Disaster Resilience
CQID: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children through Self-Determination, Delegated Authority and the Power of Community
Collaboration for Impact: Driving Community-Led Climate Justice
2:15 PM
Equity In and Through Community: The Role of Social Innovation in Advancing Regional Wellbeing
Rainforest Room
2:45 PM
Panel Q&A
Rainforest Room
3:00 PM
Monday Morning and Beyond: Reflect, Commit, and Shape Future Actions with The Equity CoLab
Rainforest Room
3:35 PM
Thank you and close
Rainforest Room
Afternoon tea available in View Restaurant Terrace
Country to Coast Queensland and the Equity CoLab acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
We are committed to embracing diversity and eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of health and other services. We welcomes all people irrespective of ethnicity, lifestyle choice, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.
